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Maxtor's ATA-133 Does 160GB

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the 160-scoops-of-yum dept.

B. Galliart writes "ExtremeTech has an article about Maxtor's two new bleeding edge ATA-133 drive models coming out later this month. The most interesting of these is the 160 Gigabyte DiamondMax Plus D540X (priced around $400) which uses Maxtor's purposed "BigDrive" 48-bit address space instead of the common E/IDE 28-bit address space thus getting pass the 137GB barrier. The drive should be useable on existing computers due to a bundled Promise Technologies ATA-133 PCI card."

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  1. I can't believe this article isn't by core10k · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    about rich fucks getting the shit blown out of them, and the Bush government drooling over the expected revenue gain from inheritance taxes.

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  2. Oh please ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Millions of people are dying everywhere all the time without any media coverage. More people will die in the roads this year than any American in terrorist attack. Death is horrible but it will catch us all sooner or later.

    And as sad as it is, the victims of these attacks are negligeable compared to all the deads in Rwanda, Bosnia, Afghanistan, North Korea etc... you are only shocked because you thought it could only happen to OTHER countries. Well, sorry, but the US is just another country, not the sanctuary of democracy and capitalism. Welcome to the real world !

    1. Re:Oh please ! by PD · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      How quickly we go from shock to callousness. Yes, everybody dies. But we'd all prefer to die somewhere OFF CAMERA or at least I would.

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  3. *groan* This is getting silly by glenebob · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Hard drive technology is getting silly. 160GB? How many people can actually use that much space? How many people that have that much data actually put it on IDE drives? My machines have 20 and 13 GB drives and I don't have any space shortages.

    What I do have is speed shortages. Same old worn out technology. Mechanical storage devices... moving parts... fragmentation headaches... ugh!!! We need *new* technology.

    In the mean time, how about making 10KRPM IDE drives, or 15KRPM. I always wonder why SCSI drives are always faster internally, because I'm pretty damn sure it has nothing to do with them being SCSI. Why not just slap an IDE controller on that new Cheetah and see what happens?

  4. Re:Back to Business by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    yeah yeah yeah... people live people die.. big fucking deal...



    All I'm really interested in is seeing the fucking FedEX and UPS lines flying again so fucking packages can be routed. Some of us have lives.

  5. Destroy Islam. Kill all Muslims. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Our "Todo" list:
    1. Kill all Arabs.
    2. Kill all Towel Heads.
    3. Kill all Muslims.
    4. Kill all Mohammedans.
    5. Kill all Camel Jockeys
    6. Nuke their countries to an ash heap.
    7. Nuke them again.
    8. Death to all Arabs.